Generally, everything. Can't go into detail, but we didn't have much automation when I started, being a new company. Starting from the bottom and mostly by myself, I wrote everything from automating our devices, phone automation, a test launcher with a CLI, equipment manager server in Django, test report generation, archiving test reports, to other wrappers for test equipment, plus a number of tests. My team is very small and very busy. I really enjoy tools, and they work on the tests for the most part. There is almost nowhere else I could do this. It's a startup feel inside of a large company, which I think is a really rare thing.

I knew I wanted to be an engineer from pretty young. Always loved math, science, technology, and problem solving. My Dad being an EE was a big part in this. I studied mostly EE in college with a few programming classes, but found out Junior year that I actually really didn't like it and I was getting pretty bad grades, too. I switched to CS and enjoyed it much more, and my grades did a lot better. Now all of my work is in Python and I couldn't be happier.

No, actually I was salaried before the acquisition and hourly afterwards. Apparently the company has all fresh graduates hourly so their managers won't work them 60+ hours/week. My manager gave me complete freedom with my hours, so I've been working that much by choice, but HR asked me to cut down a bit.

Benefits & Perks: 15-25% discount on everything, with large discounts every 3 years.

Personal/PTO/Sick days: About 2 weeks personal and 2 weeks of sick days per year.

Annual raises: Not sure yet. Probably will be salaried in 6 months, which has RSUs.

Work/Life balance: Surprisingly good. 1 short trip every few weeks, hours are fine. I end up working more because I love what I do, and my manager is incredibly accommodating if I need time off, more hours, whatever.

Opinion and outlook: This is the perfect job for me. All of my interests in one place, very fun, hard to stop working.

Anything else you want to share: I feel like the luckiest person ever.

Bots don't really get any special privileges, they're just normal accounts that usually have Bot in their name. They do have to get a certain amount of karma to start posting, then once they have enough, they just keep getting more.

They haven't upped their standards at all, they just finally got in trouble for their failure to admit their failures. They knew about some of these recalls for 13 years. These failings killed 13, and 300 people got in accidents because of safety issues. GM just told their employes not to talk about it instead of owning up to it. Fixing a problem is good, leaving problems for over a decade to save some money isn't. The CEO barely owns up to them now, she said "our company will be stronger." She doesn't give a shit about the people who got hurt.

I would suggest DSP (Digital Signal Processing). You can get the well-paid engineering job, but still be working in the music industry. It's how I got a job in the industry even though it wasn't what I wanted to do long-term, but now I have the connections to do other work that I enjoy more, while still working in music.

When Beats Audio is off, the sound goes through a different hardware path, so it is totally possible that the non-Beats path is really bad to make Beats sound good, but it's not under Beats' control. It's up to HP or HTC or whoever makes the device. I worked on these, I would know.

Basically turning it off sends the sound down a different hardware path, it's not just changing to a bad EQ setting through software.

It depends if you're talking about the headphones or the "Beats Audio" in laptops and phones. They don't have any control over the sound when Beats Audio is turned off, and it goes through the hardware of the original manufacturer. If they choose to make it bad, it's not actually Beats that does it.

Not exactly. It depends if you're talking about the headphones or the "Beats Audio" in laptops and phones. They don't have any control over the sound when Beats Audio is turned off, and it goes through the hardware of the original manufacturer. If they choose to make it bad, it's not actually Beats that does it.